Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-05-13

Inc, IN the TIN shop, by the forge, in the fac
tory, in the counting room, and he will not
find her, and he will be dissatisfied. A man
who gives himself up TO. the indiscriminate
reading of novels will be nerveless, inane and
nuisance He will be fit neither for the store
nor the shop, nor the fed. A woman who
gives herself up to the indiscriminate
reading of novels will be unified
for the duties of wife, mother, sister, daugh-
ter There she is, hair disheveled, counten-
ance vacant, checks pale hands trembling,
bursting into tears at midnight over the fate
of some unfortunate lover; in the daytime,
when she ought to be busy, staring bv the
half-hour at nothing; biting her finger nails
INTO the quick. The carpet, that was plain
before, will be palmer after having wandered
through romance all night long in tesselated
halls of castles. And yonr industrious COM
panlon Will be more unattraetive than ever
now that you have walked in the romance
through parks with plumed princesses, or
lulnged in the arbor with the polished despe-
RADIO. Oh, these confirmed novel readersl
They, are untitled for th.xltfe, which Is ire
mendous discIplinS.s Tls5N 4.~,., NOT hsess,, IN
go through the furnaces of trial through
which they must pass, and they are untitled
for world where everything we gain We
achieve by hard, long continuing and ex-
haustive work.
Again: abstain from all those books which,
while they have some good things about them
have also an admiXture of evil. You have
read books that had two elements in them
the good and the bad. Which stuck to you2
The bad The heart of most people is like
sieve, which lets the small particles of gold
fall through, but keeps the great cinders.
Once in while there is a mind like load
stone, which, plunged amid steel and brass
filings, gathers up the steel and repelS the
brass. But it is generally just the opposite
If you attempt to plunge through hedge Of
burrs to get one blackberry, you will get
more burrs than blackberries. You cannot
afford to read bad book, however good you
are. You say: 1.-THE influence is insignif-
can't" | tell you that the scratch of a pin
has sometimes produced the lock jaw. Alas, if
through curiosity, as many do, you pry into an
evil book, your curiosity is as dangerous as
that of the man who would take torch into
a gunpowder mill merely to see whether it
New York, man put his arm through the
bars of black leopard's cage. The an1mals
hide looked so sleek, and bright, and beautiful:
He Just strol1ed it once The monster seized
him, and he drew forth hand torn, ana
mangled, and bleeding o, touch not eVll even
with the faintest stroke. Though 1t may
be glossy and beautiful touch it not, lest you
pull forth your soul torn and bleeding under
the clutch of the black leopard but, you
say, 'how can find out whether book IS
good or bad without reading itf' There Is
always something suspicious about PAD
book. never knew an exception-sometnlng
suspicious in the index or style OF Illustration.
This venonlous reptile almost always carries
warning rattle.
Again: charge you to stand off from all
those books which corrupt the lmag1natlon
and inflame the passions. | do not refer now
to that kind of q book which the villain has
under his coat waiting for the school TO get
out and then, looking 10th ways to see tha6
e oro,uH tho hlnok offers
she book to your son on his way home do
not speak of that kind Of literature, but that
which evades the law and comes out in polished
style, and with acute plot sounds the tocsln thae
rouses up all the baser passions OF the soul.
To-day under the nostrils of this land, there
is tetid, reeking, unwashed literature,
enough to poison all the fountains of public
virtue, and smite your sons and daughters as
with the wing of a DESTROYING angel, and 1t is
time that the ministers of the Gospel blew
the trumpet and rallied the forces of right
eousness, all armed to the teeth, in this great
battle against depraved literature.
Again: abstain from those books which are
epologetic of crime, 1t is sad thing that
some of the best and most beautiful book
bindery, and some of the finest rhetoric, have
been brought to make sin attractive. VICE Is
@ horrible thing any how. It's born in shame,
and it dies howling in the darkness. In this
world it is scourged with whip0f scorpions,
but afterwards the thunders of Gods wrath
pursue it across a boundless desert, beating it
with ruin and woe When you come to paint
carnality, do not paint it as looking from be-
hind embroidered curtains, or through lattice
of royal seraglio, but as writhing in the
agonies of city hospital.
Cursed be tine books that try to make i'm
purity decent, and crime attractive and
hypocrisy nobel Cursed be the books that
swarm with hbertines and desperadoeS, who
make the brain Of the young people whirl
with villainy! Ye authors who write them,
ye publishers who print them, ye booksellers
who distribute them, shall be cut to pieces II
not by an aroused community, then at last
by the hail of Divine vengeance, which shall
sweep to the lowest pit of perdition all ye
murderers of souls | tell you, though you
may escape in this world, you will be
ground at last under the hoof of eternal
calamities, and you will be chained to the
rock and you will have the vultures of de-
spar clawing at your soul, and those whom
you have destroyed will come around to tor
ment you, and to pour hotter Goals of fury
upon your head, and rejoice eternally In the
outcry of your pain and the howl of your
damnation. "God shall wound the hairy scalp
of him that goeth on in his trespasses."
The clock strikes midnight. A fair form
bends over romance. The eyes flash fire.
The breath is quick and irregular. Occasion
ally the color dashes into the cheek, and then
dies out. The hands tremble as though a
guardian spirit were trying to shake the
deadly book out of the grasp. Hot tears fall.
She laughs with sbrill voice that drops dead
| at its own sound. The sweat on her brow is
the spray dashed up from the river of death.
The clock strikes flour, and the rosy dawn
soon after begins to look through the lattice
upon the pale form that looks like detained
spectre of the night. Soon, in a madhouse,
she will mistake her ringets for curling SER
pents and thrust her white hand through the
bars of the prison and smite her head, rub
bing it back as though to push the scalp from
the skull, shrieking: my brain! my brainP
Oh, stand off from thatl Why will you go
sounding your way amid the reefs and warn
ing buoys, when there is such vast ocean in
| which you may voyage all sail sets
There is one other thing l shall say this
morning before 1 leave you, whether you
want to hear it or not. That is, that l CON
slider the lascivious pictorial literaturevof the
day as most tremendous for ruin. There is nc
| one who can like good pictures better than
do. The quickest and most condensed way
of impressing the public mind is by picture
| What the painter does by his brush for few
| favorites the engraver does by his knife
for the million What the author accomp
fishes by fifty pages the artist does by G
flash. The best part of painting that costs
ten thousand dollars you, may buy for ter
cents. Fine paintings belong to the aristo-
cracy of art. Engravings belong to the
democracy of art. You do well to gather
good pictures in your homes. Spread them
before your children, after the tea-hour is
| past, and the evening circle is gathered
Throw them on the invalid's couch Strew
them through the rail-train to cheer the trav
eler on his Journey Tack them on the wal
of the nursery. Gather them in albums and
portfolios. God speed the good pictures on
their way with ministries of knowledge and
mercyl
But what shall / say OF the prostitution o.
this art to purposes of iniquityl These death
warrants of the soul ore at every street cor
ner They sinite the vision of the young mar
with pollution. Many young man buying &
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